On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a cease-fire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. He ...

The U.S. psychologist who wrote a book about school shootings that investigators found in the Munich gunman’s room says that the act of researching mass killers can be a warning sign, since young gunmen often are looking for role models — but it is ...

Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence community’s efforts to track suspected extremists and prevent mass killings, half a dozen American, British and French counterterrorism officials said. The attacks have a common theme of being ...

A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday. The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on ...

An 18-year-old German-Iranian who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich Police Chief ...

Tents, ladders, coolers, canned goods, tennis balls and bicycle locks are banned in the area surrounding the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. But guns are fine. When Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday rejected the Cleveland police union’s request to ban the open carrying ...

When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn’t unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including ...

AP Javon Grant has come up with a plan for what to do should he cross paths with a police officer: get as far away as possible. “People are getting shot every day,” says Javon, 14. “I’ll walk on the other side of the ...

The Minnesota police officer whose fatal shooting of a black driver this week helped prompt nationwide protests against racial prejudice reacted to the man’s gun, not his race, his lawyer said Saturday. Jeronimo Yanez, a police officer in St. Anthony, a Minneapolis suburb, “was ...